Presidential Document2024-12482
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Pride Month, 2024
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June 5, 2024
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May 31, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 5, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 48225-48226]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-12482]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 109 / Wednesday, June 5, 2024 /
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Proclamation 10767 of May 31, 2024
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and
Intersex Pride Month, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During Pride Month, we celebrate the extraordinary
courage and contributions of the Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+)
community. We reflect on the progress we have made so
far in pursuit of equality, justice, and inclusion. We
recommit ourselves to do more to support LGBTQI+ rights
at home and around the world.
For generations, LGBTQI+ Americans have summoned the
courage to live authentically and proudly--even when it
meant putting their lives and livelihoods at risk. In
1969 at the Stonewall Inn in New York, brave LGBTQI+
individuals protested the violence and marginalization
they faced, boosting a civil rights movement for the
liberation of LGBTQI+ people that has transformed our
Nation. Since then, courageous LGBTQI+ Americans
continue to inspire and bring hope to all people
seeking a life true to who they are. LGBTQI+ people
also continue to enrich every aspect of American life
as educators, entertainers, entrepreneurs, athletes,
actors, artists, scientists, scholars, diplomats,
doctors, service members, veterans, and so much more.
Advancing equality for the LGBTQI+ community is a top
priority for my Administration. I signed the historic
Respect for Marriage Act, which protects the marriage
of same-sex and interracial couples. As Commander in
Chief, I was proud to have ended the ban on transgender
Americans serving in the United States military. I
signed historic Executive Orders strengthening civil
rights protections for housing, employment, health
care, education, and the justice system. We are also
combating the dangerous and cruel practice of so-called
``conversion therapy'' and implementing a national
strategy to end the HIV epidemic in this country. We
ended the disgraceful practice of banning gay and
bisexual men from donating blood. We are doing this
work here at home and around the globe, where LGBTQI+
community members are fighting for recognition of their
fundamental human rights and seeking to live full
lives, free from hate-fueled violence and
discrimination.
But for all the progress, we know real challenges
persist. Last year, as we celebrated Pride Month on the
South Lawn of the White House, I had the honor of
meeting survivors of the Club Q and Pulse shootings,
which tragically took the lives of LGBTQI+ Americans.
Although my Administration passed the most significant
gun law in nearly 30 years, the Congress must do its
part and ban assault weapons. At the same time,
families across the country face excruciating decisions
to relocate to a different State to protect their
children from dangerous and hateful anti-LGBTQI+ laws,
which target transgender children, threaten families,
and criminalize doctors and nurses. These bills and
laws attack our most basic values and freedoms as
Americans: the right to be yourself, the right to make
your own medical decisions, and the right to raise your
own children. Some things should never be put at risk:
your life, your safety, and your dignity.
To the entire LGBTQI+ community--and especially
transgender children--please know that your President
and my entire Administration have your
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back. We see you for who you are: made in the image of
God and deserving of dignity, respect, and support.
That is why I have taken historic action to protect the
LGBTQI+ community. We are ensuring that the LGBTQI+
community is protected against discrimination when
accessing health care, and the Department of Health and
Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, and
Department of Justice launched a safety partnership to
provide critical training and support to the community,
including resources to help report hate crimes and
better protect festivals, marches, community centers,
businesses, and health care providers serving the
community. The Department of Education and the
Department of Justice are also addressing whether book
bans may violate Federal civil rights laws when they
target LGBTQI+ students or students of color and create
hostile classroom environments. Additionally, we are
providing specialized services through the nationwide
crisis hotline for LGBTQI+ youth who feel isolated and
overwhelmed--anyone who needs help can call 988 and
then press 3 to be connected to a professional
counselor. We are committing more resources for mental
health programs that help families support and affirm
their kids and are starting a new Federal initiative to
address LGBTQI+ homelessness. We finalized new
regulations requiring States to protect LGBTQI+ kids in
foster care.
America is the only Nation in the world founded on an
idea: We are all created equal and deserve to be
treated equally throughout our lives. We have never
fully lived up to that idea, but we have never fully
walked away from it either. This month, we recommit to
realizing the promise of America for all Americans, to
celebrating courageous LGBTQI+ people, and to taking
pride in the example they set for our Nation and the
world.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2024 as
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and
Intersex Pride Month. I call upon the people of the
United States to recognize the achievements of the
LGBTQI+ community, to celebrate the great diversity of
the American people, and to wave their flags of pride
high.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.
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